Amy Schumer Set to Star in Barbie Movie

The 35-year-old actress’ character will be expelled from Barbieland for failing to live up to the perfection expected of its residents and will set off on a journey of self-discovery.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the live-action movie will be a “contemporary spin on beauty, feminism, and identity”.

The movie does not have a director yet but Walter F. Parkes, Laurie MacDonald, and Amy Pascal will produce the film from a script written by Hilary Winston. However, Amy and her sister, Inside Amy Schumer producer Kim Caramele, are expected to rewrite the script.

She said: “The only change was that it was explained to me before I did that movie [‘Trainwreck’] that if you weigh over 140 pounds as a woman in Hollywood, if you’re on the screen it will hurt people’s eyes … I didn’t know that so I lost some weight to do that but never again.”

Meanwhile, Amy previously revealed she was told at her first audition that she should either lose weight or put on a lot of weight so she could be cast in the role of the “fat friend”.

She said: “At my first audition when I was 21, they were like, ‘You should either lose weight or gain a bunch of weight, like be the fat friend or the romantic lead.’ Can you believe they said this? But I feel like more than other people saying it, it’s a self-inflicted thing. We put pressure on ourselves and hold ourselves to this unrealistic standard … I want to throw my hands in the air after reading a mean Twitter comment and say, ‘Alright! You got it. You figured me out. I’m not pretty. I’m not thin. I do not deserve to use my voice … All my self-worth is based on what you can see. But then I think f*** that.”

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